We've been here now almost three months and neither of us knows where the time goes. Obviously the blog has been sort of forgotten at times as it has been a bit of pain to try to get anything to post properly. Google documents works very well for posting but unless the connection is good it never posts completely. Editing after the fact is so frustrating that I have given up to some extent so I apologize for the lack of posts this year while in the keys.

Lots of things have happened this year..
....Ben, our son came for as short visit
....Marge's cousin, Sandy was in Key West and visited with us briefly
....our friends the Ritchies have come down and stayed for the month of March although David has discovered he really does not care for fishing all that much. He does like eating those fish that we have caught though. Deanna on her first trip enjoyed herself thoroughly was the best student in learning to fish in salt water. She caught some nice fish too! Mark her son and his friend Jesse came down and also enjoyed a day fishing and they checked out Key West on St Patricks Day
....Dave Jag and his family were down and his son and his wife also were quite the fisherman catching enough for dinner and I think enjoying being on the water too!

....The Thompsons were here for their longest time ever
....A really strange happening was the Eagle Ray that jumped into a passing boat and unfortunately killed a woman from the blow. We have seen rays jumping often but never close to a boat. We even saw a 6ft shark come out of the water, which we had never seen before.
....we continue to eat and imbibe and enjoy with the many folks we have met over the years here at Sunshine key. Fishing and boating has been great and lots of fun.

All of us have had difficulty with the changing rules and costs and along with that the management of Sunshine Keys attitude. Basically, the costs being less than half in most other places has had a great deal to do with our decision not to return next year for the usual 3 months we spend here. We aren't sure, but we may still come down for a short time but management seems to have done its best to drive its loyal customer base away We have made reservations near Fort Myers for next year and a lot of the group is going elsewhere for some of the same reasons we are.

We plan on leaving tomorrow and will drop off the boat for storage... then we hope to head West to Natchez, Ms. From there we hope to work our way north along the Natchez Trace and get home mid April.

I tried one more time to post a few pictures but signal strength or ? has once again prevented the posting of pictures. Once we move it may be different.